{"id":64084,"date":"2015-02-22T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=64084"},"modified":"2014-11-29T01:34:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T06:34:59","slug":"the-social-construction-of-chest-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/02\/22\/the-social-construction-of-chest-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Just for Fun: The Social Construction of Chest Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the heyday of <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.thegloss.com\/files\/2011\/06\/reynolds.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">Burt Reynolds<\/a>, having a hairy chest was oh-so-sexy. What a departure from the hairless chests of today&#8217;s masculine\u00a0icons. At least it makes some sense to associate chest hair with masculinity, since men on average have more of it than women. It just goes to show that everything&#8217;s a social construction. But you knew that. ;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/09\/24.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64085\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/09\/24.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"371\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofweird.com\/occult\/psychokenisis-hairy-chest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cult of the Weird<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the heyday of Burt Reynolds, having a hairy chest was oh-so-sexy. What a departure from the hairless chests of today&#8217;s masculine\u00a0icons. At least it makes some sense to associate chest hair with masculinity, since men on average have more of it than women. It just goes to show that everything&#8217;s a social construction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":64086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,251,55,2087,293,23705],"class_list":["post-64084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-hair","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-social-construction","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/09\/32.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64089,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64084\/revisions\/64089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}